Meanwhile, CNN reports that the cruise ship passenger has landed at Galveston and been cleared by the local public health authorities as affording "no health risk."

She's passed the 21-day incubation period and she and her companion (who may have as well) both feel fine.

Of course the media are stoking the anxiety: "Ebola fear rips through Ohio!" That was the headline. The story was that a TSA officer who had been wearing gloves while patting Amber Vinson's outer clothing when she was asymptomatic has put him or herself under voluntary monitoring for 21 days.

Can't hurt, right?

But maybe reporting it as "fear ripping through Ohio" can.